• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• How Roy Bhaskar talked about the spiritual turn before it was released

• Freud did not consistently use topological metaphors to describe psychic structure

• I do not refute ideals, I merely put on gloves before them

• Will the ubiquity of GAI-driven bots lead people to retreat ever further into private social media?

• I was interviewed about the sociology of awkwardness for a French futures magazine

• Current mood in AI generated images #77

• The urgent need to understand scholarship as a process, prioritising ideas over outputs

• The problem of generative AI from a cybernetics perspective: conversational agents as variety machines

• Who will pay for your digital butler? Why the utopia of the digital daemon would inevitably become a dystopia

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #76

• Use Claude to put radically different theoretical approaches into dialogue with each other

• My first attempt at AI-generated music

• How long does it take to have a meaningful full group conversation?

• The Lacanian distinction between love and romance

• Revealing the beauty latent within the digital fragments of our cluttered lifeworld

• Platform studies needs to attend to use culture

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #75

• What is fascism in the 2020s?

• i look to the sky and fling myself into the pattern

• In defence of optimism

• 🤖 Generative AI: are we doomed or not? A crass exercise in intellectual archiving

• Breaking up with oneself

• Current mood in AI generated images #74

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #73

• The Claude liberation struggle

• What Elon Musk’s membership scheme has done to social status on Twitter

• Someone is WRONG on the internet!

• What does Generative Artificial Intelligence mean for the future of higher education? A podcast and webinar project

• Leave me alone

• On trauma and forgetting

• The Skyfall Effect: The Fantasy of the State’s Technologised Competence

• Podcast: what is it like to work with a generative assistant?

• Judith Butler’s notion of the phantasmatic scene and the epistemic chaos of platforms

• The will to create from zero

• Current mood in AI generated images #72

• Using Claude to support an intellectual dialogue: a case study of my conversation with Helen Beetham

• Here are some examples I can find of academics misusing ChatGPT in published work

• What social infrastructure do we need to make the most of generative AI?

• Out Now: Margaret Archer’s Morphogenesis Answers Its Critics

• Lacanian reflections on productivity culture

• Is it possible to fold a watermelon?

• Webinar: Pedagogies of (Generative) AI, April 11th 3pm-4pm BST

• Using Claude to do a stakeholder mapping for a public engagement project

• The common sense of Claude 3

• Our new podcast on Generative AI in Higher Education

• Is an AI autumn coming? Possibly but the arguments for this aren’t as obvious as people seem to suggest

• Are we bringing vibes to a gun fight? Judith Butler’s theory of social change

• The metonymy of desire

• The mad dreams of an electric mind: what Claudes talk about when they gather together

• CfP: Sociology of the 1980s

• Five thoughts about combining sociological reflexivity and psychoanalysis

• Current mood in AI generated images #71